Bottle-washer



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G. H. MURPI-IEY.

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BOTTLE WASHER.

Patented Apr. 1, 1890.

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CHARLES H. MURPI-IEY, OF MADISONVILLE, KENTUCKY.

BOTTLE-WASH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,894, dated April 1,1890.

Application filed January 11, 1890.

a citizen of the United States of America, re-- siding at Madisonville,in the county of Hopkins and State of Kentucky, have invented a new anduseful Bottle-\Vasher, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the general construction ofbottle-washers, and particularly of that class of apparatus embodying aforce-pump and a funnel-shaped bottle-holder.

Myinvention therefore consists in the novel construction of parts andtheir combination, as will be hereinafter fully described, and speciallyas the same is laid in the claims.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my invention in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein-- Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section of thecasing through the lid and funnel and showing the force-pump. Fig. 2 isa similar view showing the lid in place and the relative position of theend of the funnel and tip of the jet-pipe. Fig. 3 is a detail view ofthe funnel or bottle-holder. v Fig. 4 is a view of the modifiedbottle-holder.

A designates a sheet-metal vessel of such capacity as may be desired.This vessel is provided with a partition 1, dividing itnnto twocompartments, and in the partition 1s an aperture covered with a screen2, through which the water discharged into the compartment 3 from thejet-pipe flows back into the pump-compartment. I

On the part comprising the pump chamber or compartment is fixed a cover4, having an aperture through which the piston-rod of the pump projectsand slides.

B designates the force-pump, arranged in the compartment 5 of thevessel, and having the discharge-pipe 6, leading through the partitioninto the compartment 3, and having the end turned upward and providedwith a j et-piece 6 terminating below the end of the funnel and inalignment with it 111 vertical relation.

G designates a hinged cover or lid closing the compartment 3, and havingfixed 1n 1t a funnel-shaped bottle-holder D. This bottleholder is ofparticular construction and adapted or formed in both its body or upperSerial No. 336,633. (No model.)

part and in its stem or lower part to freely permit the escape of thewater. To this end the body 7 of the funnel consists of a metal platehaving formed therein a number of slots 8, extending from near thebottom edge of the plate to its upper edge. The upper edge of thebody-plate is soldered or otherwise secured to the lid 0, about anaperture 9 therein, and the lower end of the plate is cemented to anannular disk 10, preferably made curved in cross-section, as shown, tostrengthen the parts and to afford a better seat for whatever may be settherein.

To the opening of the annular disk 10 is secured the stem 11 of thefunnel or holder, consisting of a number of metal strips 12, havingopenings between them and fastened at their lower ends by means of aband 13, or

the metal at the point need not be entirely severed, and thus form theband to hold the strips together. It will be observed that by this formor construction of tunnel or holder the water escapes from both theupper portion and from the lower portion, both portions -or the whole ofthe funnel or holder being below the lid of the vessel. This makes acleanly apparatus, as all of the injected liquid is discharged into thevessel below. The funnel being fixed in the hinged cover makes itpermanent in position and at the same time does not interfere in theleast with obtaining access to the interior of the vessel wheneverdesired.

The top edge of the rim of the bottle-holder is arranged substantiallyon a level with the surface of the hinged lid and firmly secured andsealed thereto, substantially as shown.

While the bottle-holder is specifically described as having slots orinterstices for the free escape of the water, yet in many instances-suchas when small bottles are being washed-the body and stem of thebottleholder may be made out of imperforated material, the bore of thestem affording means for the escape of the water from the bottle andholder, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

Having thus described my invention, as required by the statute, Iproceed to particularly point out and distinctly claim the parts andcombinations I claim as my invention, as follows:

1. In combination, the vessel having a partition provided with a screen,a pump in one compartment of the vessel, a discharge-pipe projectedthrough the partition and directed vertically with its end terminatingbelow the end of the bottle-holder, a hinged cover on the vessel, and abottle-holder secured in the hinged lid consisting of a body portion, anannular disk secured to the lower end of the body portion, and a stemcentrally secured to and depending from the annular disk, substantiallyas described.

2. In a bottle-washing machine, the combination, with the water-holdin gvessel, of a hinged lid having secured therein a funnelshapedbottle-holder consisting of a bod y portion having side openingstherein, an annular disk secured to the lower end of the body hand inthe presence of two attesting wito IIBSSOS.

CHARLES H. MURPIIEY.

Attest:

B. W. SOMMERS, WM. MUssEn.

